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Nouns, articles and adjectives had: | Nouns, articles and adjectives had: | ||
* three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter | * three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter | ||
* four cases: nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive | * four cases: nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive | ||
** Some speculate that Proto-Quame originally had an intransitive-transitive alignment. The nominative and accusative may have originally been intransitive and transitive cases respectively, since stative verbs in the 3rd person singular have nominative endings, while eventive verbs in the 3rd person singular have endings similar to accusative endings. | ** Some speculate that Proto-Quame originally had an intransitive-transitive alignment. The nominative and accusative may have originally been intransitive and transitive cases respectively, since stative verbs in the 3rd person singular have nominative endings, while eventive verbs in the 3rd person singular have endings similar to accusative endings. | ||
* two numbers: singular and plural. | * two numbers: singular and plural. | ||
** Some nouns had broken plurals formed by reduplicating of the first syllable or using a different ablaut grade. The broken plural used singular affixes. | ** Some nouns had broken plurals formed by reduplicating of the first syllable or using a different ablaut grade. The broken plural used singular affixes. | ||
* for adjectives: strong and weak declensions, as in Proto-Germanic. | |||
Possible declensions: | Possible declensions: | ||
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*consonant stems | *consonant stems | ||
*heteroclitic stems: r/s | *heteroclitic stems: r/s | ||
==== | ====Definite article ''*pin''==== | ||
====Adjectives==== | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||